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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1916)
WORLD'S DOINGS Of CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume of General News From All Around the Earth. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL Live News Items of All Nations and Pacific Northwest Condensed for Our Busy Readers. Oregon troops on the border have just received their first payment for services. Candidate Hughes, speaking to wo- .. men only in Spokane, addressed them as "fellow citizens." Secretary Baker has mapped out ar guments to be used in the campaign for the re-election of President Wilson. Owing to court duties, Justice Bran- dels will not accept appointment on the commission to settle the Mexican problem. Human blood from recovered victims of infantile paralysis, is being used as serum to combat the disease in New York City. The U. S. forestry reports practi cally no damage by fires in the na tional forests in the Northwest, thus far this season. A San Francisco contracting firm is expected to get the job of building Portland's million-dollar postoffice, be cause of its low bid. An insane fugitive from the Oregon asylum, terrorizes citizens of Salem, and it is feared he may reach his home and do bodily harm to his family. For the first time since July 8 a heavy rain fell in the battle area, breaking the long drought and one of the longest heat waves in recent years. The British torpedo boat destroyer Lassoo sank Sunday off the Dutch coast, having struck a mine or been torpedoed. Six of the crew are miss ing. A California farmer is cultivating jimpson weed, considered a peat in this country, but which is used as a household remedy in China, and prin cipally for asthma. Oregon shippers are facing ruin be cause of the car shortage. A deficit of 975 cars on the Southern Pacific in Oregon is shown by the Public Service commission investigation. The wheat and apple crop of the Pa cific. Northwest will be materially larger than heretofore estimated, ac cording to the crop report of the de partment of Agriculture. President Wilson is conferring with the railroad officials and employes in the hope of finding amicable adjust ment of their differences. The im pression grows that arbitration in some form will be agreed upon. The price of milk by the pint was raised in New York City, retailers as serting the advance was necessary ow ing to the increased cost of supplies, principally bottles. The price of milk by the quart remuins unchanged. The Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci caught fire and blew up in the harbor of Trant, .Italy, and 400 of her crew were drowned, says a Turin dis patch to the Petit Journal. The date of the disaster is given only as a day in August. Chinese troops have attacked the Japanese garrison at Chengchlatun, between Mukden and Chaoyangfu, and have killed or wounded 17 Japanese soldiers and killed one officer. Ac cording to official advices from Cheng chiatun, the Japanese barracks now is being besieged by the Chinese soldiers. HeBvy advances in the price of flour are announced in Chicago. The Bartlett pear picking season is now in full swing in the Rogue River valley, Oregon, and all indications point to a $1,000,000 pear and apple crop. Use of a special train to enable J. Frank Hanley, nominee for President, and Dr. Ira Landrith, candidate for vice president, to reach the entire na tion, has been authorized by the Pro hibition National campaign committee. It is understood the train will start about September 12. St. Louis dairies affected by the strike and lookout of union milk driv ers did not attempt household deliver ies Friday, but considered plans for resuming service. Many strikers were arrested. There was considerable in terference with grocery and bakery wagona that went to the dairies to get milk to retail. Russian forces are now within bom barding distance of Stanislaus, Austria. Political Influence is being brought to bear on the Treasury department to compel the Use of Bedford limestone from Indiana on the new Portland, Or., postoffice. The National Association of Master Bakera, in session in Salt Lake City, adopted a resolution to President Wil son and to congress, asking that an embargo be placed on the present wheat crop in order to prevent any further advance in the market price of wheat. CONGRESS FINALLY APPROVES NAVAL BILL 157 WAR CRATT AUTHORIZED Washington, D. C Congress virtu. ally completed the national defense program Wednesday by finally approv ing the great increases in naval con. struction and personnel written into the naval bill and urgently supported by the administration. The bill car ries appropriations aggregating $315,- 000,000. The house accepted the building pro gram, to which its conferees on the measure had refused to agree, by a vote of 283 to 61, with seven of the members present not voting. The personnel increases, on which there al so was a disagreement in conference, were approved without a record vote. The personnel and construction sec tions, which already have the approval of the senate, authorize an increase in enlisted men to 74,700 and the build ing of 167 war-vessels within the next three years, with four battle cruisers and four battleships included among the ships for 1917. Previously the house had refused to adopt a continu ing building program, had authorized only five capital ships, all of them bat tle cruisers, and had provided for a personnel of only 65,000. On several less important sections, including appropriations for improve ment of navy yards, the house insisted on its disagreement to senate increases and voted to send the bill back to con ference for settlement of these points. An early adjournment is expected, however, and the measure may be sent to the President for his signature within a week. Wheat Hits Highest Mark of , Season-Cereal May Go Higher Chicago Wheat quotations Tues day: September, $1.42f; December, $1.46i; May, $1.60. Amid trading that bordered on the spectacular, wheat went soaring in the pits of the Chicago board of trade Tuesday, hitting the high-water mark of the season. September wheat, which had jumped 6 cents by noon, closed at $1.42, a margin of 4 cents over Monday's close. The high-water mark was $1.43. December hit the top mark at $1.46 J, closing at $1.46, an advance of 62 cents over Monday's close. May wheat soared to $1,502, dropping to $1.60 at the close. The rise was sen sational and unexpected. It came in the face of a pending investigation of the trading on the board for the pur pose of ascertaining whether or not the last skyrocket advance was due to unlawful manipulation. Again a crop report was blamed for the sensational turn. Traders said the advances were traced directly to the report of the Canadian minister of ag riculture, which said conditions in Canada were much worse than had been previously indicated. There were bIso reports that ap peared to show crop conditions in Western parts of the United States as being more pessimistic than shown by the United States report, which was made to bear the blame for the sky ward advance of a few days ago, and which stirred the investigation bu reaus of the government to activity. Numerous buyers of enormous quan tities of caBh wheat for foreign gov ernments were also reported to have been active in the wheat pits and trad ers pointed to this as proof against any charge of manipulation, into which the officials are inquiring British Munitions Output Quite Sufficient for Self and Allies London Reviewing the work of the munitions department in the house of commons recently, Ldwin Samuel Montagu, minister of munitions, after telling of the immense increase in out puts of all kinds of guns and muni. tions, informed the houBe that all rifles and machine guns for ' the armies ,in the field were being supplied entirely from home resources. The quality of the guns and munitions, he said, was equal to the quantity. This statement, he added, was particularly true of the heavy guns and howitzers. Mr. Mon tagu pointed out that half of the en geering resources of the country were required for the navy but declared that very shortly Great Britain will have provided for her own requirements and be able to devote herself exclusively to the wants of her allies in regard to machine guns. Already, he said, she was Bending large amounts of guns and munitions to her allies. Many Bergs in Inside Passage. Seattle The captains of the steam ers Humboldt and City of Seattle, which arrived here Monday from Southeaatern Alaska ports, report steaming through an unusully large number of icebergs in the inBide pas sage, a Bhort distance south of Juneau. Capt. T. H. Cann, master of the City of Seattle, said that the great amount of ice forced him to anchor his vessel for a time at Taku. A blazing sun has caused the Taku glacier to crumble away with great rapidity, and bergs as large as office buildings are adrift. Gompers Denies He Bosses Labor. Washington, D. C. Samuel Gom pers made reply to Senator Sherman who recently denounced him in the senate as a "public nuisance" during a characterization of certain labor lead ers as arbitrary and tyrannical. "It is impossible for me to be arbitrary or tyrannical," said Qompera, "for there are no such powers vested in the presi dent of the American Federation of Labor. I have not the power to deliver the vote of any man or group of men." They Will Lend -J 1 vf 'JV ----''''J 1 ffv " fy IS V 1 f - I At'A v 4 1 " - ' 1 CHA lO&fitEU KANSAS W.V'A SMITH IOWA These are the men nominated for members of the Farm Loan Board by President Wilson. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo will be a member ex-officio. Charles E. Lobdell is a student of farm problems and has had extensive experience in farm loans. He was reared on a farm, which he left to study law, being admitted to the bar in Kansas in 1882. He represented Lane county in the Kansas legislature ten years, and was speaker of the Kansas house in 1895. In 1902 he was elected judge of the Thirty-third judi cial district. He served on the bench until 1911, when he resigned to accept the presidency of the First National bank of Great Bend. In 1914 he was president of the Kansas Bar associa tion, and in 1916 president of the Kan sas Bankers' association. He is a Re publican. George W. Norris is a student of economic and social questions. He was graduated from the University of of Pennsylvania, did newspaper work from 1880 to 1886, and then began the practice of law. In 1894 he took charge of the bond investment busi ness of the private banking firm of Ed ward B. Smith & Co., of Philadelphia, serving as member of that firm until 1911. At the request of Mayor Blank enburg he accepted, in December, 1911, the directorship of the municipal department of wharves, docks and f er- Congress Breaks Washington, D. C. The importance of the $200,000,000 revenue bill, to which the senate has devoted many hours of deliberation in caucus, is be ing impressed on leaders by the fact that appropriations now nearing com pletion have broken all records. With passage this week of the $50, 000,000 ship-purchase bill and probable approval by the house of the senate s gigantic naval bill, the appropriations of the Sixty-fourth congress will have exceeded the previous high record by at leaat $500,000,000, While exact figures cannot be com puted until the gaval has fallen on the last supply bill of the session, the ag gregate appropriations by congress for all purposes probably will approximate $1,700,000,000 as against $1,114,000,- 000 for the Sixty-third congress. Besides regular supply bills, which total, as they now stand, $1,387,206, 580, congress will have added, when the shipping bill is approved, more than $90,000,000 for special purposes. There also have been contract author izations amounting to about $270,000, 000, all of which would bring the grand aggregate to $1,685,000,000, with the uncertain general defic iency appropriation bill, still in the making, to be added at the end of the session. Constable Kills Two Mexicans. Tucson, Ariz. After has horse had been shot from under him by two Mex ican suspected of having perpetrated a burglary, and he himself had been shot through the hip, Constable John Bright of Courtland, drawing his gun as he lay prone on the ground beside the body of his horse, killed the two Mexicans Saturday. After emptying his revol ver at the Mexicans, who had ambush ed him, Bright crawled a distance of two miles on his hands and reported to a ranch house that he had been am bushed by the suspected burglars. Angry Editors Apologize. Birmingham, Ala. Settlement of differences between E. W. Barrett and W. H. Jeffries, of the Age-Herald, and V. H. Hanson, of the News, was an nounced Monday by a committee of the Birmingham Rotary club. Both pa pers will publish apologies and re tractions of personal charges made during a recent dispute over business methods. The Rotary club intervened when it was reported that Barrett and Hanson were going to fight a duel. Money to Farmers. .-,1 . rffc.U'H 1 . ' H.i-1"! I Illllliul. m.iiiiil...,. GEO. W NORMS, vfA. He is a director and deputy chair man of the Federal Reserve bank of Philadelphia. He is president of the City Club and the Philadelphia Hous ing association, and a is Democrat. Captain Smith is a farmer and now is an expert in farm practice in the de partment of Agriculture at Washing ton. He has been a student of rural credits for many years and is an au thority on farm loans. When a young man he followed the sea, and at an early age became a shipmaster. He quit the sea to engage in farming. For many years Captain Smith was a director of the Stockyards National bank of Sioux City, Iowa, which trans acts millions of dollars of business an nually with farmers. He is a Repub lican. Herbert Quick is a student of rural credits, and widely known to farmers. Unitl a few months ago he was editor of Farm and Fireside. He, too, was reared on a farm, en gaged in teaching, and later practiced law in Sioux City from 1890 to 1909. He was general manager of the Ne braska Clark Automatic Telephone company and the Iowa Clark Auto matic Telephone company, 1902 to 1906, and was nominated three times for mayor of Sioux City, and elected once, serving from 1898 to 1900. He was nominated for judge of the Su preme court of Iowa in 1902. Expense Record Special appropriations include $20, 000,000 for a government nitrate plant; $6,000,000 for good roasd; $15,000,000 for rural credits, and $50, 100,000 for the government shipping project. With President Wilson and a major ity of the party leaders urgently sup porting the naval building and person nel increases, it is beileved the house will agree to them after advocates of a small navy have made their last fight. In anticipation of a close vote, every absent reprenstative was noti fied more than a week ago of the ap proaching contest, which will mark the climax of the national defense campaign this week. Appropriations for preparedness alone will aggregate approximately $640,000,000 unless unforseen develop ments should force a curtailment. While the house this week is bringing business to a close, the senate will pass the shipping bill, workmen's com pensation bill and conference reports preparatory for the revenue bill, on which a stubborn assault will be waged by the Republicans. When the amended revenue bill gets through con ference, it is expected congress will be ready to adjourn. Leaders of both parties are hoping adjournment will come by September 1. Printers Fear Idleness, Baltimore The danger that thou sands of printers may be thrown out of work because of the high cost of white paper was said to be a question seri ously concerning the delegates to the 62d annual convention of the Interna tional Typographical union here. John W. Hays, secretary, said the shortage of print paper is making it difficult for many newspapers to keep in busi ness. In some cities, he said, there was talk of consolidating plants to reduce working forces and expenses. Hogs Bring $10 Per Hundred. Seattle Hogs on the hoof Bold at the Union Stockyards Saturday at the highest price since the opening of the yards, $10 per 100 pounds. I. H. Preston, of Midvale, Idaho, was the shipper, with 90 head averaging 194 pounds. Hogs sold here one day in 1909 at 11) cents, but the city had no yards. Packers express a willingness to pay 11) cents next week for similar weights and finish unless a serious break in Eastern prices intervenes. NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Nine Oregon Crops Valued at $30,181,730; Wheat Leads Salem Oregon farmers this year will reap a profit this year of $30,181,- 730 from nine principal products, ac- cording to estimates compiled Monday by 0. P. HofT, state labor commis sioner. The crop of wheat, corn, oats, barley, potatoes and apples will each exceed $1,000,000,000 in value. The percentage of the combined con dition of all crops during July, based on a 10-year average, was 94.3. The biggest item in Oregon's enor mous harvest this year, as in the past, is the wheat crop, which, based on crop conditions August 1, will show a yield of 11,781,000 bushels of winter and 4,000,000 bushels of spring, or total of 15,781,000 bushels. Commissioner Hoff's estimates indi cate that the state's winter wheat crop is 86 per cent of the average for 10 years, while the spring wheat crop is 86.2 per cent. The estimated value of the entire wheat crop of the state at the farm on August 1 was 83 cents a bushel, or a total of $13,097,230. The stock of wheat now held on Oregon farms is placed at 873,000 bushels. The state bureau of labor statistics forecasts an oat yield of 13,200,000 bushels, worth $5,412,000 to the Ore. gon farmer at 41 cents a bushel. The crop is 90.8 per cent of normal. With 60,500 acres planted to pota toes this year and the crop 92 per cent of normal, a yield of 6,250,000 bush els is forecasted. At 80 cents a bush el this crop will have a value of $5, 000,000. The state's apples crop will total 8,216,000 boxes of a value of $3,216, 000. The yield is 72 per cent of a 10- year average. Barley will bring $2,447,600 to the farmers, it is estimated, with a crop outlook of 4,450,000 bushels. This year Oregon has 41,Q00 acres planted to corn, with a prospective yield of 86 per cent normal. Mr. Hoff estimates that 1,200,000 bushels will be raised, netting the pro ducers $1,008,000. Although the yield of pears is but 68 per cent of average for 10 years, be cause of unfavorable climatic condi tions this year, the estimated crop is 510,000 bushels, worth $510,000. The rye crop, estimated at 91 per cent, will total approximately 418,000 bushels, valued at $418,000. Because of recent rains the hay crop, it is estimated, will run only about 2.1 tons an acre, 88 per cent of the 10-year average. The peach crop this season is fore casted at 272,000 bushels, 59 per cent of normal, and valued at $272,000. The grape yield is placed at 80 per cent, and the blackberry and logan berry output at 94 per cent of the av erage for 10 years. The condition of truck crops for canning purposes on August 1 is placed as follows : Snap beans, 80 per cent; cabbage, 91 per cent; sweet corn, 71 per cent; cucum ber, 68 per cent; peas, 90 per cent; tomatoes, 76 per cent. On August 1, the estimated value at the Oregon farm of the state's main products Commissioner Hoff places as follows: Corn, 84 cents a bushel; wheat, 83 cents; oats, 41 cents; bar ley, 65 cents; rye, $1; onions, $1.20; clover seed, $12; timothy seed, $4.73; alfalfa seed, $13.37; beans, dry, $6.27; butter, 27 cents a pound; eggs, 23 cents a dozen; chickens, 11 cents a pound; hay, $11.43; potatoes, 80 cents a bushel; hogs, $7.51 per cwt; beef cattle, $6.92 per cwt; much cows, $70.75 per head; sheep, $6.25 per cwt; horses, $107.30 per head; lambs, $7.25 per cwt; calves, $8.96 per cwt. Big Lane County Wool Pool Brings 40 Cents Per Pound Eugene Announcement of the vir tual sale of 40,000 pounds of Lane county wool, constituting the Pomona Grange pool assembled in Eugene, Cottage Grove and Junction City, to the Portland Warehouse company was made this week by C. J. Hurd, market master of the grange. The price, though not announced, is understood to have approximated 40 cents a pound. The wool has been shipped to Port land and will be graded there, after which final settlement with the grow ers will be made. The Portland con cern made an advance to the growers nearly equalling the market price. The pool represents wool belonging to 137 growers. 30,604 Autos in State. Salem Receipts of the state auto mobile department of the secretary of state's office for the first seven months of 1916 totaled $132,044.60, as com pared with $108,881.60 for the entire 12 months of 1915. A steady increase in the number of motor vehicles in Oregon is shown. Last year there were 23,585 automo biles and 3158 motorcycles. This year, with five months yet remaining, there are 30,504 automobiles registered and 3207 motorcycles. O.-W. R. & N. Raises Wages. The Dalles O.-W. R. & N. machin ists and boilermakers and their helpers have been granted a raise in wages, effective August 1. The raise was un solicited. Machinists receive an in crease from 44 cents to 47 cents an hour, helpers 23 cents to 25 cents; boilermakers, 45 cents to 47 cents; helpers, 24 cents to 26 cents. RAILROAD STRIKE ISSUE TO WILSON Employes Refuse Arbitration of Differ ences in Any form. CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON "Unless President Can Find Road, it Means Strike," Says Head of Labor Forces, Garretson. New York A general strike on the railroads of the nation, paralyzing commerce and throwing out of employ ment 2,000,000, can be averted only through the good offices of President Wilson, as a result of Sunday's devel opments in the dispute over the men's demands for an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime. The controversy was laid before the President, at his invitation, after the workers had flatly rejected any form of arbitration. They refused media tion Saturday. "Unless the President can find a road, it means a strike," said A. B. Garretson, head of the labor forces. Representatives of the railways and employes have gone to Washington, where a conference with President Wilson is arranged. The final break came Sunday after the men had been in secret session nearly six hours. Reports differ as to the reason for the failure of the nego tiations. The men assert they refused to arbitrate because the railroads in sisted on arbitrating their contingent proposition. The board of mediation, in a statement, declared, however, the men rejected their proposition, con tending that they would not arbitrate even if the railroads waived the con tingent propositions. Russians Capture Whole Stripa Line; Adrians Retreat to Avoid Defeat London The whole line of the River Stripa in Galicia was seized by the Russians Sunday. The army of Gen eral von Bothmer, after holding its strongly fortified position ever since last winter, was compelled by the powerful pressure of the Russians north and south to fall back hastily toward the west. The Austrians are probably entrenched behind the Zlota Lipa river, prepared to make a last stand before they retreat to positions before Lemberg. It was the menace to his flanks and rear, rather than any frontal move ment, which caused Von Bothmer to surrender the line along the Stripa, which for Beven weeks had been sub jected to the most violent Russian at tacks. Generals Sakharoff on the north and Letchitsky on the south had gradually closed in upon the Austrian wings. Infantile Paralysis Claims Ambas sador Page's Daughter-in-law New York Mrs. Frank Copeland Page, daughter-in-law of Walter Hines Page, United States ambassador to Great Britain, died of infantile paral ysis late Saturday at her summer home in South Garden City, Long Island. She was 25 years old and had been ill only since Friday. Mrs. Page, who was Katherine Sef- ton, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Fred erick Sefton, of Auburn, N. Y., was married to the son of the American ambassador June 3 last. Surgeon Gives Own Body. Chicago The last contribution to science of Dr.- John B. Murphy, the eminent surgeon who died at Mackinac Island, the gift of his body was made Sunday. In obedience to Dr. Murphy's last wish that science establish the cause of the death which he knew was coming, an autopsy was performed here as soon as the body was brought from the Northern summer resort. It established that death was due to heart disease aggravated by throat trouble. I his confirmed the diagnosis that Dr. Murphy had made on his own condition. Big Motorship in Port. San Francisco The Danish Bhip Chile, said to be the largest motor shin afloat, arrived here Rundnv 49 days from Copenhagen and 37 days from Christiana. Actual running time, according to the captain, was 31 days. This, he said, was a record for a freighter. The Chile broucht 1000 tons of cargo for this port and 8500 tons for the Orient. She is one of 21 new vessels ordered by the East Asi atic company for tramping trade. The Chile is 450 feet long and, with 10,000 tons of cargo on board, draws 27 feet. Big Dam is Washed Away. Asheville, N. C The Southern rail way agent at Lake Toxaway reported Sunday that the big dam there had bro ken and that a flood of water was rac ing down the valley. Messages have been Bent from Asheville warninsr Greenville, Anderson, Seneca and other Southern Carolina points of the dan ger. Later the Lake Toxaway Inn at Lake Toxaway reported that the whole dam had been washed away, and that trie lake was practically drained.